Nicolaus Thomas Host

Icones et descriptiones graminum Austriacorum. Vienna: M.A. Schmidt, 1801-1809

FIRST EDITION, 4 volume𒈔s, foli🌱o (485 x 335mm), 400 hand-coloured engraved plates after J. Ibmayer, three-quarter green crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, edges uncut

A TALL COPY oཧf the fin🔯est pictorial representation of Austrian grasses, with plates by J. Ibmayer, this is very much in the “Jacquin” Viennese style. The work was subsidised by the Hapsburg Emperor Francis I, to whom Host was physician. 

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 60; Nissen BBI 935; Stafleu TL2 3067